Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Memoir and the Missing” here

This workshop considers unavailable archives and missing evidence in life writing. How to write what’s not seemingly there, what’s not known or knowable? How do we make memoir from personal and historical absences? Through facilitated discussions, writing exercises, and sharing of resources, we will contemplate the limits of the memoir genre and explore strategies for working through, around, and against its conventions.

Kyo Maclear is the author of Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (Scribner, 2017), Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets (Scribner, 2023).

Vinh Nguyen is the author of the speculative memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse  (Counterpoint, 2025) the academic monograph Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience (UC Press, 2023).